Greetings from Seoul

I hope that this posting finds you all in good spirits, and that the weather is treating you fine. from my guess, i think that its spring break now? over here, spring break is just a wish - which gets thrown in with all the other wishes, namely for more time off, more polite kids, less-harassing parents....

Things over here are doing just fine. i've adjusted to my schedule, i'm not suffering from the jet-lag anymore, and i've somewhat adjusted to the food (i still miss certain things, namely the rampant availability of junk-food, english instructions, (i'll just save the time and say "anything" in english). you can buy food here with english instructions, but the price difference is staggering; i'll try the old eye-ball method.

today, the weather here went straight back to winter - after three/four days of really nice spring weather, it dropped right off, and became freezing cold - with the wind chill, the weather dropped to somewhere near -15C. So far, we've had only one day of snow, and it stuck around for about two hours, and then melted, making everything slushy and muddy really fast. Other than the odd cold day, the weather has been pretty nice- i'm hoping that the weather stays this way, with the nice spring-type weather, because when the muggy and humid weather comes along, its not going to be too much fun.

Today, I visited a collection of Confucian temples located on a mountain side. It took me over an hour to get there, and after getting out at the wrong stop twice, and correcting my direction once, i finally got there. At the bottom of this blog you should see two pictures. the view of the city was amazing. aside from the rampant smog that was blanketing the city, it was breathtaking. everything is so tightly packed together, it makes the city seem so much smaller than the 10 million people that live here. with the temples and religions here, i unfortunately did not take any pictures - Koreans do not like it when you take pictures of them worshiping; quite natural - if i was sitting in church, and people just walked in to take pictures, i'd be unpleasant to. it somewhat makes things a little frustrating though, when you see so many beautiful sights, yet can't take any pictures. its too bad, because i'll remember the images, but i won't be able to convey the images back to you.

well, i need to get going; my battery is running low, and saturday is starting to wind down. i usually have to remind myself of the time difference when i'm talking to people online. I hope that everyone is doing well - i'll try to take more pictures of different things in Korea, and when i get the chance, i'll make another addition to my running story of the different aspects of Korea.

Take care, and God Bless



Bryan